South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is proud to announce that our Nursing Development team - which was responsible for the successful Trust Comedy Night as part of October’s Mental Health Month has again showcased the incredible care and philanthropy of their team.

On Tuesday, 31 October,South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust announced the winners of the #upliftingimage 2017 digital photography competition and the close of Mental Health Month for 2017.

On Thursday, 19 October, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and St George’s University of London, together with Baroness Sheila Hollins, celebrated the life work and legacy of Joan Bicknell with a memorial event at Springfield Hospital in Tooting, where Joan did much of her pioneering clinical work.

To celebrate October's Black History Month South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust delighted hold a screening of the BBC documentary– Black Nurses: the Women Who Saved the NHS, followed by a Q&A discussion panel from our senior BME SWLSTG NHS Trust professionals.

We want to continue to work with our service users and carers, their friends and families, our local communities as well as our health and social care commissioners, other providers, and the voluntary sector from across south west London to shape our strategy for the next five years.

On Friday, 27 September South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust held its annual collaborative event: Communications in Mental Health – Language of the Spirit, the Arts and Technology.

A brilliant clinician who was appointed professor of psychiatry of learning disability – the first British female professor of psychiatry – at St George’s, University of London, Joan was a life-long campaigner for the rights of people with learning disabilities, putting the disabled person and their family at the centre of each consultation.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) is delighted to announce the selection of a preferred bidder to work alongside the Trust to progress the Estate Modernisation Programme to contract close.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust has launched a Trust Carer’s Charter to recognize the important role that carers’ have in supporting the lives of those who use our services whatever their age.